Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/DolceVita Institute of Technology

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The result was speedy delete. hoax / made up. —Kusma (t·c) 13:16, 26 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

DolceVita Institute of Technology

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This institute doesn't exist and the whole article is fake. The creator is user:Bianbum, aka Giuseppe Macario, which is responsible for the creation of a whole universe of fake websites. As you can read by this la Repubblica's article: "He claims to be professor at the alleged-to-be 'DolceVita Institute of Technology', whose website is offline, and that on Wikipedia is defined as the first and only Vatican institute in the Technology area. A proper fake news, as the Vatican stated after laRepubblica's control " ("[vanta] una docenza persino nel fantomatico 'DolceVita Institute of Technology' con sito irraggiungibile e che sulla propria pagina Wikipedia si definisce come la prima e unica istituzione nel settore dell'Ict nello Stato del Vaticano. Una vera e propria fake news e come tale viene liquidata dal Vaticano, dopo una verifica da parte di Repubblica.") It would also be advisable to double-check and triple-check everything related to Macario. Ripepette (talk) 21:55, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as per nom; research only brings up a web of wikipedia and facebook articles and a strange twitter account, and a questionable Italian article. SportingFlyer (talk) 22:25, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Delete as hoax. The only ref that mentions this group claims that it only exists in SecondLife, and a credible Italian newspaper says it's a hoax. power~enwiki (π, ν) 23:56, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk • mail) 00:25, 22 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Technology-related deletion discussions. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk • mail) 00:25, 22 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Italy-related deletion discussions. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk • mail) 00:25, 22 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete for the reasons specified by everyone else. Moaz786 (talk to me or see what I've been doing) 01:21, 22 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Delete for the reasons already cited. The "official website" ([1]) is currently not reachable, and "La Repubblica" is authoritative enough (see article [2]: "viene liquidata [come fake news] dal Vaticano, dopo una verifica da parte di Repubblica" – "Dismissed as a "fake news" by the Vatican after la Repubblica's own verification". Lion-hearted85 (talk) 11:54, 22 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Delete and tagged as such. This is a WP:HOAX article, a location that is apparently a user-generated space in the game Second Life. Chetsford (talk) 18:56, 25 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as a hoax. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 21:02, 25 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.